Re: crazy ideas for yum/pup/that_damned_applet

[Paul Nasrat <pnasrat redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 23:49 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>seth vidal (skvidal phy duke edu) said: 
>> >Once an app such as the cracklet or yum, or whatever, has been notified
>> >of the update, it can call over dbus to the PM to get information on
>> >the update, the changelog, etc. Then it can display its pretty little
>> >dialog, and poke the PM over dbus to invoke yum/pup/whatever to do the
>> >update.
>> 
>> 
>> Well a good place to start with code is something than the c-daemon can
>> execute to update the cache and look for updates. anyone know much about
>> sending dbus events from a python app?
>
>dbus actually comes with python bindings... you could write the entire
>manager in python if you so desire.

I think that's the first step.  I'll try and play today.

Paul